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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1929.

OUR WEEKLY SERMON

"Significance Of Historical Element In Christian Idea Of Incarnation

MODERN CHURCHMAN'S VIEWS

[By the Rev. J. S. Boys Smith, M.A., Fellow and Chaplain of St. John's College, Cambridge]

(Continued from November 10.)

The conclusion of the Arst en- quiry may therefore be stated as follows. An interpretation of In- carnation in terms of a system of thought for which historical order has full reality, the universe being 'growing universe. may well be possible. Yet belief in the full reality of the historical is not im-

ab apparent, that development

means.

Second Enquiry

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W To-day-Dinner Dance at Re-

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To-morrow Tea tain range, whilst the main line pulse Ray Hotel, 8.30 p.m. of defence is abandoning the ter ritory to the west.

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Nov, 27-Police dance at Lane, Crawford's restaurant, 3 pm.

Nov. 26-Final practice dance of Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society Wan Fa-lin, Governor of. Hei-at Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m. lungklang. has left Taitaihar for It is from this standpoint that Rechatu, while 24 military trains our Recond enquiry must be under- have been ordered in readiness taken. I have used the word in-for.a retreat.-Reuter. carnation for the most part without the article.

In what sense does the Christian iden require us

to

INTERFERENCE

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speak of the Incarnation; or, in Coal Owners Complain of what sense is the Incarnation In

Govt.'s Schemes Jesus unique?

I have rejected the view that make it unique in the sense that his

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plied by the iden of Incarnation. What this idea certainly does Im- ply is the real worth of the finite world, and by consequence of the historien. But I suggest that the real worth of the finite world is Hife marked a crisis in the history A very heated meeting between best secured, not by claiming for it of reality, and in the sense that his the ministers, Mr. William Graham

a miraculous inter-and Mr. Ben Turner the self-sufficiency or independenco coming was which its full reality would involve.vention, from above" as opposed to scntatives of the coal

'from below." I have done sa by ended without result, the latter con- but by understanding that its worth consists in the funttion, sub cause they seem to me inconsistent, demning the Government's "inter- ordinate though necessary, it fulfils the one with a philosophical posi-ference" with marketing schemes. within that concrete whole, which tion, the other with the standpoint and the establishment of a central is not itself subject to process,

of history. I shall now try to wages board, hence the introduction Modern and Pre-Modern

show that, though uniqueness may of legislation will be considerably Troeltsch, In

he claimed for the Incarnation in delayed. It will certainly be im two books

Jesus in the most valuable and only possible to enforce the marketing Steeplechase Meeting.

scheme on January 1; as planned.

which discuss the claim of Christianity to be the absolate religion and significance of the historicity of Jesus for faith, laid stress upon a broad contrast between the modern

thereal sense, the sense in which it is commonly claimed in fact defeats its own purpose.

and the pre-modern outlook upon Christianity, The pre-modern outlook is dominated by contrasts and discontinuities: natural and super-natural, God and the world, human and divine. The world is Kone

wrong out of its original course, and human nature is vitiat. ed by a taint from which it is powerless to cleanse itself. Con- sequently, the redemption wrought by Christ is conceived us a catastrophle act of divine inter- vention, a crisis changing the course of the world's history. Chris

Here, 11x everywhere where

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London, To-day. The discussion between the Gov- erament and the ecal owners is'not

Theatre;

Theatre;

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Lammert's Auction Nov. 27-At 11, Humphreya' Building. Kowloon. household furniture, 11 a.m.

Meeting Nov. 26-Sanitary Board Meet- ing, 4.15 p.m.

Miscellaneous

Recital by City

serious thought begins, we are con yet concluded. It is announced fronted by difficult problems, which that the coal owners' Central Mar- commonly have a logical aspect. We keting Committee, which drew up are more accustomed to use than the owners' marketing scheme, will

Nov. 25-Planoforte categories of meet on November 27, when owners to examine thought with which

we habitually will also meet the Coal Committee Mr. H. Ore's Pupils at the It is so with uniqueness of the Cabinet, and discuss the Hall, 6.30 p.m. Detail is here impossible. I must details of the marketing proposals Nov. 26-Hong Kong Stock Ex- content myself with asserting that, to be included by the Government change Settlement Day. so far as I can see, uniqueness is in its coal billa-Reuter. meaningless if you try to take it in the sense of a complete discon- tinuity, making it consist in isola tion or unparalleledness; for to call

AIR RISKS

a thing wholly, unparalleled is at Inquest on Victims of

German 'Plane Crash

Nov. 27-Annual drill display of the Fire Brigade in Central Police Station, 3 p.m.

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tianity is absolute in the sense that once to compare it and to call it in- it is without analogy; it is from comparable. Uniqueness has a above, supernatural; all else is from meaning only if it is taken in the

Rugby, Yesterday. below, natural. It offers 'a home sense, of Individuality, by which 1 The inquest was resumed to-day of salvation which perpetuates the mean in the sense of an element or at Caterham on the seven victima primary historical miracle in the member with a special function. It of the disaster to the German air. The following programme will be miracle-workings of the Church | consists in the special place a mem-liner which struck some

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and of the divine word of Scripture.ber occupies in a system or whole: while dying from Croydon to Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on 200 For such a position, as Troeltsch each member makes to that system Amsterdam and crashed in flames, points out, the historicity of Jesus a contribution which no other mem-a fortnight ago. is not a problem but an uncondi- ber exactly repeats. Yet the mem-

The victims were three passeng-port. tionally recovery presupposition.ber, though unique, is not isolated.ers and four members of the crew, In contrast with this, the modern but essentially a feature in a sys-including the pilot, Prince Eugen outlook is dominated by the idea tem, and both unintelligible and im-von Schaumburg-Lippe. The in- of continuity.. The contrasts of possible apart from the ayatem quast had been adjourned to enable the earlier view, are abandoned: from which it draws its life and to Lieutenant-Commander Glen Kid- here the antithesis is not "human" which it renders its service. Unique-ston, the sole survivor, who was in- and "divine," but all is at once ness belongs either to the whole jared, to give evidence. The jury The correla-Itself or to a member of the whole, gave a verdict of "accidental death." human and divine." tive ideas of the essence (Wesen) of and has no other meaning.

Commander Kidston, who is him- religion, of this essence in the his- What Understanding Means self a well-known airman, made the

The bearing of, these logical con suggestion tory of religion, and of Chris

that an experienced tianity as the absolute religion, are alderations should be clear. To official should adrise pilots in bad henceforward the apologetic founda- understand the sense in which the weather as to whether the condi- tion of ao-called modern or liberal Incarnation in Jesus is unique you tions were suitable for flying. This, theology. Christianity is absolute, must see him, not in isolation, but he said, would probably prevent a not in the sense that it is without in his setting in the whole. He is repetition of the disaster. analogy, but in the sense that it is unique, not as coming from another were times when pilots took risks, the highest point in a continuous sphere, but as occupying in our own and he thought the case of the gradation; and

salvation sphere--the one world of our the

ex-wrecked German plane was one of) wrought by Christ is not a perience a position that is not them-British Wireless Service. catastrophic intervention, but a duplicated. To understand him, aupreme revelation of what ia henceforward seen to be the ideal for all things, in which it is al- ready in some measura manifest.

you must see him in relation to the whole, and the whole in relation to him: that, indeed, is what under- standing always means. This, I think, is fundamental.

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Incarnation Not e Crisis This account of the contrast be-

I shall be met, perhaps, with tween the modern and the pre-

the familiar objection: You are modern standpoints may be ac allowing only a difference in degree;

Mexican, City, Yesterday. cepted as, in a broad sense, true; what is required is a difference in

The International Committee of and such detailed qualifications as kind." In reply, I might fairly Bankers, New York, have invited complete accuracy might require auggest that the objector has pro- Ortizrublo, President-elect may here be neglected. Troeltsch bably not considered what this dis- Mexico to go to New York before Identifies himself entirely with the tinction means, and that it may be he assumes office in January. It modern position, and we, I think, less absolute than he supposes, but is believed that the bankers de- must do the same. I have already this I will pass by. More imsire to renew negotiations for an- argued that the historical stand portant is another consideration.other international debt agrée- A message from Madrid states point cannot be regarded as ultimate This demand, no doubt, is made ment. The Mexican budget last that the Superior Council of War Dolls that can close. their eyes and for philosophy; but when it is professedly in the interests of a year earmarked 37,000,000. Pesos Marine has unanimously decided go to sleep, and dolls that can Bay adopted, as for many purposes it high view of God and of Jesus. But to pay as interest to bolders of to liberate Sanchez Guerra, who "mamma," golliwogs, rag dolle, must be, the Incarnation will not I believe it has in fact quite the Mexican securities, but it is un-is still confined in Valencia, appear as a crisis, isolated and opposite result. You may succeed derstood that the bankers agreed owing to the disagreement of the For the boys there are toy trains,| without analogy, in the world's in so exalting Jesus that he has no to delay payment in order to al- military governor of the district motor cars, Are engines, buses, history. Evolutionary process in parallel or analogy in the world low the Mexican Government to with the findings of the Court ships, sailing boats, cranes, drums, a fact, and the Incarnation must be besides. But what have you then meet, the expenses of the Escobar Martial-Reuter.

horns, lead soldiers, and, hundreda interpreted, when historically re-achieved? You have made him rebellion-Reuters, American Ser-

of other entertaining toys. garded, in terms of it, even though foreign to our comprehenaton vice

For Bigger Children such an interpretation must (as I (Indeed, as I shall show, you have

Bigger children of both sEXOS have suggested) remain partial, in vastly decreased the credibility of

The Social Clab of H.M.S. will find much pleasure in various that it does not ask the last ques the facts you wish, to estabifsh);

"Berwick" held a dance last night propelling wooden toys such as at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant. Fairy Kara, Pedal Kara, Coaster tions. The Incarnation: will thus and you have done it at the ex- appear as the climax of a long pense of all besides. It is easy to

The "Bears," Band was in attend Waggons, scooters, Fairy cycles development, intelligible, in part at azalt the particular case, so that it

ance and the spot-waltz. competition and "Tri-ang" cycles, and last, but least, in terms of Ita antecedents is no longer subject to the con

was won by Miss Crossan and Cpl not least, the hobby horses, and environment: Jesus being à | tamination of the common world;

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For the kiddies" Christmas party product of this time and circum-but it is you, with your absolute stances, Inheriting the traditions of distinctions, who dave made that published a retrospective decred Shing (27) sustained injuries to his stockings, interesting games of A Chinese coolie named Lee there is a large variety of crackers, his race, and passing them on world common, - whereas enriched by his own great expert been content to see all in its related employed in Soviet institutions an excavation at the old Hong Kong ifte for men include penknives,

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